The outage forced Tanioka’s Seafood and Catering in Waipahu to scramble to save its raw seafood.

“Even when it’s (a short outage), we have to pull all our poke out and keep it in the back refrigerators,” said manager Justin Tanioka. “If it’s longer, it becomes more worse. For the initial, it’s hard. It stops production in the kitchen.”

Additional generators were brought online to help restore power.

Crews will investigate the problem and take appropriate action, HECO said.

A separate, unrelated outage was also reported in Kaaawa that affected 780 homes and businesses.